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Why Trump says the US-Iran war is over

Trump’s plan to evade an Iran deadline, briefly explained.

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Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump told Congress the Iran war is over. Is it?

What happened? Friday marks a legal deadline for Trump, after which he should be required to wind down US military operations around Iran. But according to Trump, he already has: The president wrote in a letter to Congress on Friday that the Iran war was “terminated” thanks to the........

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